• PaX [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    Purple line is H5 and it’s almost alone, holy fuck agony-deep

    Idk maybe it’s spurious somehow, I don’t really know anything about like… epidemic detection through viral nucleic acids in wastewater but since we don’t have a functioning public health system…

    View for yourself: https://data.wastewaterscan.org/

    Are there any H5 influenza variants that circulate in humans? Ofc can’t know if it is some kind of deadly human-adapted avian flu without more info. Or idk, does any significant amount of agricultural runoff end up in city wastewater?